They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive in a new form.

Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire

Hoods are automated gene sequencers-machines that work out the genetic code by themselves.

Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park

Suddenly there was both enthusiasm and money for biology, and a torrent of discoveries poured forth: tranquilizers, steroid hormones, immunochemistry, the genetic code.

Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain

If something hadn’t gone wrong with her genetic code, Lisbeth would have been as radiantly beautiful as her sister.

Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire

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I have chiseled away at my father’s genetic code since I realized I was better equipped to roll to school than walk, but the bare-bones me is still more Raymond Burr than Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Chris Crutcher -- Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes

The genetic code inside Ebola is a single strand of RNA.

Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone

We follow her past the gene therapy room where I saw a map of my genetic code, farther into the heart of the compound than I have been yet.

Veronica Roth -- Allegiant

If you take Alaska’s genetic code and you add her life experiences and the relationships she had with people, and then you take the size and shape of her body, you do not get her.

John Green -- Looking for Alaska

They surround a single strand of RNA, which is the virus’s genetic code.

Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone

A tiny change in its genetic code, and it might turn into a cough and take out the human race.

Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone

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And George and I are both GPs, so any entanglement that can’t produce a stronger genetic code ….

Veronica Roth -- Allegiant

The fringe is where my mother retreated after witnessing a murder—it is where the Bureau found her and rescued her because they suspected her genetic code was sound.

Veronica Roth -- Allegiant

I don’t know what I had in mind when Nita talked about her plan, but it wasn’t this—this feels so small, so passive as an act of retaliation against the people responsible for the attack simulation, the people who told me that there was something wrong with me at my very core, in my genetic code.

Veronica Roth -- Allegiant

A tiny difference in the virus’s genetic code, probably resulting in a small structural change in the shape of one of the seven mysterious proteins in the virus particle, had apparently changed its effects tremendously in humans, rendering it mild or harmless even though it had destroyed the monkeys.

Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone

But don’t for a second think that I actually believe she’s not interested in you for more than your genetic code."